Josh Gad Quotes
Coming off of 'Book of Mormon,' I had a lot of opportunities. I didn't want to do TV, actually. I really wanted to get paid nothing and keep doing theater at all costs.
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I enjoy building more than managing.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.
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L.A. interests me, the whole band scene and relaxed carefree feel, but it does not mean you have to dress like a hippy.
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I'm an artist, and I'm a bit weird, and I'm probably a bit eccentric.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well.
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I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.
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Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.
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A nation never falls but by suicide.
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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
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From childhood I have been afraid of mummers. It always seemed an extra shadow without face or name had slipped among them...
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It's an important point to make that people can't just be invalidated, eradicated, because they don't fit tidily into a box. And more and more, the modern world is all about conformity.
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In a person's career, well, if you're process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you're more likely to be success. I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.
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I love watching people, and that's what I do; just go for a walk at about 4 o'clock, and go down a busy street, where you see people coming out of school and you get a glimpse of their lives, what they're talking about.
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I grew up less than a mile from folks that lived in shacks with dirt floors. I certainly know that there are needs in this country. Not too far from your house, if you look around, people need to be helped.
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In real life, I'm a really smiley person. I smile when I talk and I laugh.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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[Photography is ] likewise even French impressionists. So the Sculls bought pop. It was politics, and they moved with it. And I think that could be happening, to some degree, with photography, too. It doesn't cost as much to do it, either.
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We don't have 'posh' in Canada. It's just not a thing that exists.
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Coming off of 'Book of Mormon,' I had a lot of opportunities. I didn't want to do TV, actually. I really wanted to get paid nothing and keep doing theater at all costs.
